On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 2:15 PM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote: > your english is quite clear, and you certainly understand the > mechanical aspect, but i think you give the scanner too much credit. > they dont have the brains to oversample and then downsample. they move > the motor faster and take fewer readings. the end user would scream > about the speed at lower resolutions otherwise.
I see, thanks for the information. > back to the real issue: independent control of X and Y resolution. > some scanners support it, some dont. some backends do it, some dont. > Those that do seem to always output stretched images, so most end > users probably dont do it. I have often considered removing it from my > backends, because it seems to cause more questions than answers. Hmm, OK. I'll ask some more questions and get back on the list.... the reason I am interested in this is because I understand the Canon scanner driver does not accept different x and y resolutions, yet Canon scanners are advertised with and y different. Very odd to be sure. Regards, Gernot
